Rebuilding the News: Metropolitan Journalism in the Digital Age

Over the past decade, the institutions and business models of American journalism have been utterly transformed. Through a combination of local newsroom ethnography, social-network analysis, and online archival research in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Networking the News: The Struggle to Rebuild Local Journalism, 1997-2012, tries to place current shifts in news production in perspective. The book also breaks down the walls of the traditional newsroom in order to study how bloggers and citizen journalists were implicated in the massive changes confronting journalism.